The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-01-13
CURRENT TOPICS.

ot Cairo.
THERE is no end of the year like the
dividend.
The next Connecticut Legislature will
contain 1l8 farmers.
A SCHUYLER, Neb., man ate eighty-six
oysters at one sitting.
A BOY has been born in Kansas with eyes
i'm the back Of his head.
A aouRD in Barren County, KY, holds
twelve and half gallons.
MORMON elders are making many con-
verts in Eastern Mississippi.
The cold weather in Florida causes
alarm about the orange crop.
THERE are 100 colored men in Washing
ton who are worth $4,000 each.
A TEXAS preacher predicts that the world
will come to an end in ten years.
LOUISIANA now aspires to be the great
fhay-producng State Of the Union.
TEE new year opened bright with prom
Uses for the plumbers and coal dealers.
NEW YORK CITY drinks 100000 barrels
of beer every year, at o cost Of s3S 100000.
KANSAS CITY claims to have population
Cf ls2 O00, and including her suburbs 19O,-
1000.
A CARLOAD Of hickory nuts has been
shipped from Blissield, Mich, to Califor-
mia.
The red-noscd man, during the recent
cold snap, was not regarded with suspi-
lcion.
In the East there is practically nothing
left Of the custom Of making New Years
calls.
The grave and monument Of Oliver Cold
smith in London are in . condition Of sad
neglect
No. h1Cy ,,,;lo 80 n,ro1
and her daughter have gone to Italy for
the winter.
SENATOR KENNA recently gave dinner
mt which he skillfully carved whole
roasted deer.
THERE are IA, ,1s6 newspapers and period
'icals of all sorts published regularly in the
United States.
A New HAVEN (Conn) man has brought
suit for 5000 damages against widow
who Tilted him.
THERE are garlands Of fame waiting for
the man who shall invent q millionaire's
will that wills.
THE reports from ten Southern States
show an increase in the iron output, since
1880, of $500 tons.
President CLEVELAND shook hands with
three thousand persons at the New Years
TcCcpIIOA ~ tuc w ulto aouSe.
THE cost of postage stamps to the Gov
ernment, covering every thing, including
delivery, is s8 80 per thousand.
THERE are signs that the tithe war in
Wales, 30 far from dying o natural death,
is really gathering fresh vigor.
THE Italian people are about to erect
monument to Garibaldi on the Janiculum,
in Rome, to cost 1,00O, 900 francs.
D
elected to the United States Senate, is now
q well-to-do farmer in Mississippi.
In no one year since the beginning OF
our Government have so many prominent
Government officials died as in 1885,
ACCORDING to the dispatches Of the past
few days, the leading question seems to
have been: HAS Secretary Lamar lost his
Holtf"
"JIx CUMMINGS" will be able to study
the "Polite Letter Writer" behind the bars
at the Missouri Penitentiary for the next
seven years.
IT is reported that enterprising farmers
In Kansas have sent to Alabama for cotton
seed to experiment with the great staple
in their climate.
Moses. But his monument will be placed
thoven, at Vienna.
THE st. Louis Rep,Iblica~ says that it is
not exactly tho fair thing that Michigan
should have three United States Senators.
Jones should resign.
The last book that General Logan read
was the biography Of General r. L. Lee.
He finished the book the day before his
fatal sickness began.
LORD TENNYsoS persists in his deterIni-
nation to write poem to the Battenberg
baby. All England seems to be down on
the poor little princelet.
DREssMAKERs Of New York complain Of
their long hours and low wages, and de-
nOunce the "bsrgain counters" as among
the causes Of these evils.
COnNIssIoNER COLMAN vigorously pro-
tests against violation by the Illinois
Live Stock Commission of the rules rclat-
ing to pleuro-pneumonia.
A WIDOW In Oakland, CAL, has sued Q
newspaper for libel because in its obituary
notice Of her husband it spoke of his hav-
ing "gone to happier home"
BE Of good heart, ye who have turned
over new leaf. It 10 difficult to keep faith
the first few days Of your good resolutions,
but it will be easier after awhile.
SPoRTsMEN will be glad to know that the
Wisconsin Legislature is likely this winter
to enact a more stringent law protecting
wild ducks during the spring season.
! THE King Of the Sandwich Islands has
lsquandered in riotous living some $4,000
which his poor subjects had placed ON de-
iposit in the Honolulu savings banks.
THE latest fashionable fad is for the
young women to industriously eat pepper
mint candy at the theaters. They evidently
intend TO get even with their rclOve-chewing
lescorts.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, William Penn and
christopher Columbus went ON terrible
lspree in New York New Years Day, il the
Ipoaice docket Of the next morning is TO be
believed. --. .tr
tn. salaries and mileage of United
States Senators last year amounted to
1894 y6N.68, and the salaries Of officers,
clerks and employees Of the Senate to
,48sl, ,9M.0o. ..-
BERLIN celebrated ON New Years, the
eightieth anniversary Of the day upon
which, while only . lad Of ten, the present
German Emperor received his commission
~ ensign Of ths Foot Guards.
DR.W. b. HALE, an Edinburgh physician,
who 10 travelling in this country, has cane
which he says cost $500. The head con-
tsins over three pounds of eighteen karat
gold, and IL mounted with sixty-ave dia-
hnonds.
IT In rumored that Senator Brown, Of
Georgia, will resign his seat in the U. 3.
0enate about the middle Of January. He